Equitable settles: E&Y silk Hapgood slams “pointless” claim
Equitable Life has this morning settled its £2.6 b claim against former auditors Ernst & Young by discontinuing its claim, with each side left to pay its own costs. Ernst & Young’s barrister Mark Hapgood QC of Brick Court Chambers, described Equitable’s move to settle as the “biggest climb-down in English legal history”. “At the […]